26.1 anxiety and intolerance of uncertainty in preschool children with asd

Anxiety disorders are highly prevalent conditions in youth with ASD. Most of the research on anxiety, however, has been conducted in children ages 7 years and older. There have not been many studies focused on examining anxiety in preschool-aged children with ASD. This is probably attributed to the intense focus on social communication treatment during early development and the lack of diagnostic measures to evaluate anxiety in this age group. This presentation reports on the prevalence and phenotype of anxiety in preschool-aged children with ASD using a novel measure that carefully differentiates anxiety from core ASD features.
Source: Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - Category: Psychiatry Authors: Source Type: research